Conveyance1. (n.) The act of carrying, transporting, or communicating; as, the conveyance of an idea or message.
2. (n.) The instrument or means of carrying or transporting anything from place to place; the vehicle in which, or means by which, anything is carried from one place to another; as, stagecoaches, omnibuses, etc., are conveyances; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water.
3. (n.) The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission.
4. (n.) The act by which the title to property, esp. real estate, is transferred; transfer of ownership; an instrument in writing (as a deed or mortgage), by which the title to property is conveyed from one person to another.
5. (n.) Dishonest management, or artifice.
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